In the late 1930’s, one of the most powerful productions came forth from the smokestacks of Hollywood’s newly formed, movie-machinery!
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Yes, the Wizard of Oz was a truly incredible work of unforgettable and magical imagery, which has since made a tremendous impact upon movie fans around the world!
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In it, little fresh-faced Dorothy of Kansas captured the hearts of millions, as she and her three companions sought after the seemingly divine providence of the awesome and dreadful Wizard of Oz!
WIZARD OF OZ: SECULAR WORLD’S ANSWER TO PILGRIM’S PROGRESS
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Oh yes, that magical movie, The Wizard of Oz, captivated the hearts of movie-fans for decades, because it was so charming, colorful, and masterfully-produced!
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And yet, as wonderful as it seemed, it nevertheless was actually just a cheap “knock-off” of John Bunyan’s allegorical tale, Pilgrim’s Progress.
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And it was actually just the mirror-opposite of Bunyan’s book, in that it directed the movie audience back down to this present world, instead of upward, to Heaven, as did Bunyan’s tale.
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In other words, the far-away Land of Oz was really just a cleverly disguised version of this world.
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And the Wizard was nothing more than an atheist’s version of a non-existent God.
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And the Wizard telling the Tin Man that he didn’t need a heart because he already had one, was just another deceitful lie by the “god of this world”! (see 2nd Corinthians 4:4)
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Yes, there are multitudes who would like us to believe that we humans can have inherent goodness apart from God!
But while many unconverted citizens of this, the Devil’s world, have been deluded by that Master-Deceiver into believing they possess a loving heart…
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…but there are many others who, like the Tin Man, realize they have a loveless heart.
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Often these heartless ones are diagnosed by the psychiatric community as being “sociopaths”, lacking any love and lacking a conscience to some degree.
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But truth-be-told, the hour is coming in which all those who have not been truly Born Again will be fully made aware that they too are in need of a heart!
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Yes, the frightful hour is coming in which God will allow the entire world to reveal just how evil and loveless we fallen humans really are!
ABOVE PICTURE: Satan, The False Prophet who offers a world-loving gospel – www.signsofheaven.org
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For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication…
And I heard another voice from Heaven,
saying, Come out of her, My people,
that ye be not partakers of her sins,
and that ye receive not of her plagues.”
Revelation 18:2-4 (Condensed)
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This above passage has most Bible teachers running in every-which direction, trying to figure out just what and where is this “Babylon” which God commands His faithful ones, to “Come out of her My people!”
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Some think it might be some city in the Middle East, such as Dubai.
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Others think it to be Rome.
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Some, the world economic system.
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Still others believe that it has not yet been built, but soon will be.
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And even some believe it is this fallen, Luciferian, Antichrist World-System.
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Question Mark – Wikimedia – Public Domain
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“How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!”
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Well, those who believe Babylon to be this fallen, Luciferian World-System are actually fairly correct, to a certain degree.
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Yes, Isaiah, Chapter 14 gives us a big clue that Babylon is Lucifer’s antichrist world-system…
“…That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon,
and say…How art thou fallen from heaven,
O Lucifer, son of the morning!
how art thou cut down to the ground,
which didst weaken the nations!
Isaiah 14:4, 12
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Yes, as this above passage seems to infer, the true King of Babylon is actually Lucifer, the fallen rebel angel.
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And this, of course, very much explains why this present world has been and still is so evil, ever since the fallen angels took over the rulership of Planet Earth.
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Martin, John – Satan presiding at the Infernal Council – 1824 – Wikipedia – public domain
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“And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.”
Revelation 12:15
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Just consider the various waves of evil which sweep over the nations, and how they all seem to be so well-orchestrated!
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Coincidence? Hardly!
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But rather, a vast army of unseen spirit-beings, following that original progenitor of evil, Lucifer, are orchestrating the various waves of evil deceptions which have deluged this world-system, since the beginning.
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Just marvel at how Lucifer has so wondrously erased himself from the minds of humans, often portraying himself as some red-suited cartoon-character with tail & pitchfork!
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Or someone’s little black cat named “Lucifer”.
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“MYSTERY BABYLON, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS”
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But let’s clarify this concept of Babylon even further.
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And thankfully, God gives us many clues as to just what and where is this infamous “city of confusion”! Isaiah 24:10
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And this title alone, “MYSTERY BABYLON, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS”, should give us a giant clue, since the Bible repeatedly compares the apostate church-world to a harlot…
“And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira…
because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel,
which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach
and to seduce my servants to commit fornication,
and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.”
Revelation 2:18, 20
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Now, obviously, Jezebel had been long deceased at the time Revelation was being penned (penned in the 1st century).
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And so, God must be speaking metaphorically, comparing Jezebel to a false prophetess, as her adulterous false-doctrines have been and are still misleading the church-world.
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ABOVE PICTURE: Thewicked city, Babylon, the apostate church-world – Burgkmair – 1523 AD – Wikimedia – US Public Domain
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“GOOD NEWS FROM A FAR COUNTRY”
Proverbs 25:25
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The very Good News is, that we don’t have to remain in the confusion and apostasy which is overtaking the church-world.
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The call is now going out…
“And I heard another voice from Heaven,
saying, ‘Come out of her, My people,
that ye be not partakers of her sins,
and that ye receive not of her plagues.”
Revelation 18:4
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The only way to truly come out of this twice-fallen city of confusion, Babylon, is to begin the upward sojourn out of this world of confusion.
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And by hiding God’s Word, the Bible in our heart, and shutting out the false church-doctrines, and the wares-n-ways of this erring world, only then can we enter into that “highway…called “The Way of Holiness” Isaiah 35:8
The Revelation 12 Dragon Constellation can be located by finding Orion in winter months. The Dragon is to Orion’s left, and the Dragon’s mouth is right next to Orion’s shield. This Dragon’s mouth is the V-like constellation The Hyades Cluster, which is also known as the head of Taurus the Bull. The Dragon’s tail-tip is Pleiades and the lower shaft of his tail is partly of Ariesand Pisces. Then with aid of a dark and starry night, you may begin to connect the mouth and the tail with a very long body in an oval shape. The front and back legs are made of a few stars: the front legs partially of stars from Taurus . The back legs and rear fin are made of 6 stars from the CetusConstellation.
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BODY HARD TO SEE
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The long oval-shaped body has relatively few stars, but can been seen, howbeit with a dark, starry night. The four stars of the front fins are made partially of Taurus .
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ABOVE STAR CHART: Wikipedia star-charts winter constellation in West with Orion
“As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
There is none that understandeth,
there is none that seeketh after God.
They are all gone out of the way,
they are together become unprofitable;
there is none that doeth good, no, not one”
Romans 3:10-12
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There has been a 400+ year debate between those who follow John Calvin’s teachings on Election/Predestination, and those who follow Jacobus Arminius’ teaching on Free-Will.
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This has been perhaps, the most controversial theological question in the history of the Church.
(Actually, no “Bible-only Christian” should ever be giving himself or herself such unbiblical labels as “Calvinist”, or “Arminian”!)
Now for some reason, the debates over this issue can get very lively, to say the least! And there have actually been fistfights which have resulted from heated debates over this subject! Certainly, many friendships have ended because of this question.
But there is one question which no “Free-Will Salvation” advocate can answer!
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And just what unanswerable question completely befuddles all those who insist that “Well, God looked down the corridors of time and chose all those whom He knew would be looking for and desiring Salvation”.
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And that one unanswerable question is this: “Why would some people desire Salvation, while most others would not?”
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This question cannot be answered according to the Bible! And so, Free-Will advocates must avoid this question at all costs!
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This is because there might be only three possibilities:
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1: Some people have some tiny spark of goodness which others do not possess…
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2: or perhaps they just were smarter…
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3: or they heard a much better-quality sermon, causing them to choose Salvation.
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So, which is it?
Question Mark – Wikimedia – Public Domain
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THE GOODIES AND THE BADDIES
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Most definitely, Salvation is not the result of some people having some little spark of goodness while others do not. It can’t be! Just look at such verses as this one from Psalm 14…
“The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men,
to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.
They are all gone aside,
they are all together become filthy:
there is none that doeth good, no, not one.”
Psalm 14:2, 3
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Here we see that there is nobody that seeks God…“no, not one”. But those who believe in free-will salvation believe that there are some who do “seek God”.
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And all such must engage in a wrestling match with these passages in attempt to make them say something other than the obvious meaning!
Black sheep – Wikipedia & Jesus Solana – share-alike license
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JUDGMENT DAY WILL REVEAL
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For those who remain undecided about this question, can rest confident, that all such baffling questions will undoubtedly be answered on the Last Day, when standing before the Judgment Throne.
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In the meanwhile, let’s not get caught up in human reason and simply put our trust in what the Bible says, not going beyond.
Christ Returns – Triumph of Christianity – by G. Dore – cropped image – www.christimages.org – Limited-use-license – see their website for restrictions (2)
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TODAY’S PRAYER…
“Dear Lord, graciously grant me the privilege of studying the Bible for my own self, and not put my trust in mere mortals to tell me what to believe…
Pray for Our Nation sign – Wikimedia – Share-alike-lic.
6 Then always being fully assured, and knowing that being at home in the body we are away from home from the Lord 7 (for we walk by faith, not by sight), 8 we are fully assured, then, and are pleased rather to go away from home out of the body, and to come home to the Lord. 9 Because of this, we also are striving to be pleasing to Him, whether being at home, or being away from home.
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In the late 1930’s, one of the most powerful productions came forth from the smokestacks of Hollywood’s newly formed, movie-machinery! 
story of the Wizard of Oz was no exception. 
charming, colorful, and masterfully-produced!
It’s just like some songsters sang back in the 1970’s, “But Oz never did give nothing to the Tin Man, that he didn’t already have!”
But while many unconverted citizens of this, the Devil’s world, have been deluded by that Master-Deceiver into believing they possess a loving heart…
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Well, what’s the Good News here in this horrible report?
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